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Kudos to winners Congratulations to the three winners of the Omani Song Festival. Many thanks to Black & White for coming out with a feature (issue 63) on the event. Such encouragement will go a long way in not only bringing awareness about the wealth of Omani talent here, it also helps the singers get an additional limelight. Kudos to Aisha Al Zadjali (Golden Nightingale), Munthir Al Ma’awali (Silver Nightingale) and Issa Al Balushi (Bronze Nightingale) for winning the well contested competition. And all the best to the other singers too. All in all, it was a well attended, well conceived and executed programme. Congrats to the organisers too!. Anisa Al Harthy, Seeb
Readers column
Make more outlets for talent There is some kind of talent in everyone. It can be of any nature, any character and in varying degrees. But then there can be some out there with great talent waiting to be discovered. Now, how do we discover this talent? How do we discover talent that is sometimes hidden in some remote corner of the world? That is where we come to the talent fests like the one Oman organised (issue 63). The Omani Song Festival is a brilliant way of finding out raw singing talent and also giving them a platform to sing and discover themselves too. We should have more of such talent finding sessions as well as offering more opportunities to artists so that they showcase their talent to the world. I am of the firm belief that every country has talent that could compete with the best that exist in the world and all that matters is to discover December - January 8 B&W 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 4
them. You never know there could be some extraordinary talent languishing in some corner of the world, hoping and waiting to be discovered. Our job is to give them a platform, an exposure, and if possible, a leg up on their way to success. Sudhir Rajagopal, Al Khuwair